Patron saint festival
Feast of Saints Cosmas and Damian
📅 Every year, on 26 September
On 26 September Venarotta celebrates Saints Cosmas and Damian; the village also hosts the Museum of Cooked Wine and Medicated Wines.
There are two roads for the name: a temple of Venus that people from Ascoli are said to have built up here in the sixth century, or the vena, the underground spring. Venarotta governed itself until Ascoli took it over in 1237. On the coat of arms the castle has two towers, and the left one is drawn in ruins: the village put its own wreck on its badge.
More than a single village, Venarotta is nine ancient hamlets scattered among the badlands and Monte dell'Ascensione. At Gimigliano stands the oldest church of the territory, that of Santi Quirico e Giulitta; and there, in 1948, a girl of thirteen, Anita Federici, said she had seen the Madonna twenty-six times. The sanctuary that grew from it was consecrated in 1962.
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Chiesa di San Luca 📍 Pavia · 21 km Church in Pavia of 1586-1609 on the Via Francigena, its façade turned north towards the pilgrims. Chiesa dei Santi Primo e Feliciano 📍 Pavia · 21 km Twelfth-century Romanesque church in Pavia, with its original façade and Agostino da Vaprio's 1498 triptych. Chiesa di San Francesco 📍 Pavia · 22 km Franciscan church in Pavia with a two-tone Gothic façade and double portal, a Visconti burial site. Torre civica di Pavia 📍 Pavia · 22 km Eleventh-century tower of Pavia, which collapsed on 17 March 1989: ruins and a 2014 memorial remain. Pinacoteca Malaspina 📍 Pavia · 22 km Civic art gallery of Pavia in the Visconti Castle: Bellini, Correggio, Antonello and the Morone bequest. Chiesa di San Lanfranco 📍 Pavia · 24 km Romanesque Vallombrosan basilica in Pavia, with Amadeo's tomb of San Lanfranco and a fresco of Becket.